Kathryn, sure, to a casual reader the omniscient Thomas Friedman seems to have entirely reversed his line on Bush, democracy, and Iraq. But it won’t really be complete until he begins a column by saying he was in the departure lounge at Ramadi International and it has much better WiFi access than a dump like LAX. Alternatively: Saddam’s Iraq was the Flintstones but Bush turned it into the Jetsons (scroll down).